The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and journalists, today vehemently condemned the arrests and acts of aggression against Hong Kong journalists and photographers by the police. According to the Hong Kong Journalists Association and Hong Kong Press Photographers Association, the police have targeted journalists while they were covering protests. [...]
Rogelio Barragan, director of an internet portal Guerrero al Instante that covered the south of the country, was found dead in the trunk of a car on July 31, in the central state of Morelos. He had been tortured and shot dead. The police are investigating the murder, as it is not clear if the killing [...]
Jorge Ruiz Vázquez, a reporter for Grafico de Xalapa, was shot dead at his home in Actopan, Veracruz state on August 2, despite being provided state protection. Media reports said that he was killed just a few days before he was to testify before state authorities about previous death threats made against him. Vázquez had alleged that Actopan Mayor [...]
The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and journalists, today criticized the government of Bulgaria for issuing a European investigation order against the editor-in-chief of Bivol Bulgaria, an investigative news website. The prosecutor general of Bulgaria issued the order in an attempt to bring the editor-in-chief of Bivol, Atanas Tchobanov, [...]
Read on IPI's FreeTurkeyJournalists website The International Press Institute (IPI), in cooperation with the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA), today published a new report analysing the extent to which Turkish courts protect the fundamental rights of journalists and others exercising their right to free expression. The July 2019 Turkey Free Expression Trial Monitoring Report (the Report), [...]
The International Press Institute, a global network of editors, media executives and journalists, has urged the Transitional Military Council (TMC) of Sudan to immediately put an end to the harassment of journalists by security forces and ensure their safety. On July 24, the security forces arrested Sadiq al-Rizaigi, editor of the Al-Sayha newspaper and head [...]
The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today vehemently condemned the arrest of noted journalist Erick Kabendera in Tanzania and demanded his immediate release. Erick Kabendera, a freelance journalist who has written for several publications around the world, was arrested by plainclothes policemen from [...]
The International Press Institute, a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, has condemned the statement of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro threatening to send noted journalist and co-founder of The Intercept Glenn Greenwald to prison. “President Bolsonaro’s threat to jail Glenn Greenwald is an outrageous and deeply troubling act from [...]
This article is part of IPI's #PressEgypt campaign to free jailed journalists in Egypt. In February 2018, Egyptian journalist Moataz Wadnan conducted an interview. A few days later, he was arrested. After more than a year in temporary custody, Wadan remains in solitary confinement in one of Egypt’s most notorious prisons. The arrest Moataz [...]
The Executive Board chair of the International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and journalists, has condemned the trial of Philippine editor Maria Ressa on cyber-libel charges as farcical and part of a targeted campaign to silence her. The chair, Markus Spillmann, said today that the cyber-libel case was not simply [...]